Emergency Room

My first experience with kids and an emergency room turned out to be for Raya. As seen in earlier posts she has been fighting a fever. Monday night at 1:30 she was whimpering in her sleep when we went to her she was burning up. We tried giving her Tylenol and she threw up and was shaking. Not exactly a seizure but very close. I took her to the ER while Dennis stayed back with the other three (I am counting Broc). We got to the JMH ER a little before 2 am. The nurse took her temp and it was 105. I think my heart stopped when I saw that. I didn't even know a fever that high was possible. The nurse gave her some Tylenol and the doctor was examining her. They did a strep throat test and chest x-rays. I was also trying to give her a pedilite bottle so she would pee in a bag, but she HATEs anything besides milk so that took about an hour to get her to drink 2 ozs. At about 3:30 the docotor came back with the results. Strep - negative, chest x-ray showed problems with her lungs. The doctor called it a viral broncitis. At this point her fever was down to 100.8 and because she did not appear dehydrated they sent us home with instructions to use Tylenol to control the fever and if it didn't get better in 2 days to start her on an antibiotic. Tuesday I decided to take her to her regular doctor. She said the x-rays showed pneumonia. This doctor prescribed a stronger antibiotic and said to continue with Tylenol. So we are not at day 5 of fever. Last night it got as high as 103, but by the morning the fever is gone. It starts back up in the middle of the afternoon and hits a peek in the late evening. All in all she is doing pretty good. No cough or congestion and is in a decent mood. She doesn't cry a lot - just kind of whimpers. The worst part is trying to get her to take her medicine and Tylenol. She hates it - she spits it out or gags on it and throws up. We have to lay her on the table and put small drops in the corner of her cheek and wait for her to choke it down.
I have now decided the worst thing about kids is when they get sick. There is nothing I can do to help. I will take discipline issues over sickness. At least with discipline you have a chance of it getting better, but when a kid is sick there is not a darn thing you can do about it.
In honor of Miss Raya being a trooper here are some cute photos of her.